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No Model.) W. E. BROOK.

BARBED METAL FENCING STRIP.

Patented A-pf. 4,1882.

XYQIVBTGCDY' "m messes a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. BROOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR. TO THE VVASHBURN I & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS;

AND ISAAC L. ELLWOOD, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

BARBED METAL FENCING-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,763, dated April 4, 1882. Application filed December 17, 1881v (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. BROOK, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Barbed Metal-Strip Fencing; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a section of my improved barbed fencing completed and ready for use. Fig. 2 represents a section of thin strip metal with barbs cut on both edges thereof, and a I5 wire, A, passed through loops pressed out of the central portion of said strip, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 3 represents an edge View of the section of fencing shown in Fig. 2, looking in the direction of arrow 1 of the same figure. Fig. 4 represents on an enlarged scale a section on linea b, Fig. 3, looking in the direction of arrow 2 of the same figure.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the (3 may be separated from each other and be out upon one edge only ofthe strip of metal A.

In the manufacture of my improved fencing 5 the wire A is combined with the strip of metal B, as shown in the drawings, by being passed through a series of loops, E F, formed along the central portion of strip B, by first making slits or cuts D and then pressing out the intermediate portions to form the said loops E and F, one portion being pressed in one direction and the other in the opposite direction, thus leaving round openings or loops along the entire central portion of the barbed strip for the insertion of the central fence-wire, A. 5 It will be seen that after the wire A is inserted it will be supported by two series of loops, E and F, one on each side of the wire, but alternating with each other, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 of the drawings. After the wire Ais inserted. through theloops E and F in strip B, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the fencing is galvanized and then subjected to the twisting operation, so that the barbs U will stand in different directions, as shown in Fig. 1. It preferred, the fencing may be galvanized after it is twisted.

By combining the wire A with barbed strip B in the manner above described a very strong, v

durable, and rigid fencing is secured. 6o

Having described my improvements in barbed metal-stri p fencing, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the barbed strip B, provided with loops E and F, of the central. supporting fence-wire, A, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

. WILLIAM E. BROOK.

Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINOKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

